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A modern-day Dante discusses drugs, the American nightmare and literature's last exit.
Aronofsky updates Selby's tale -- originally set in the Bronx of the '70s (and published ... Aronofsky's cast members get chewed up by Selby's meat grinder, and ...
By Stephen Lemons
Thursday, October 26, 2000
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Oliver Stone's "W." has people excited -- no, really! Plus: Aronofsky vs. "Robocop," gals conquer Comic-Con, and Arab cinema's greatest voice falls silent.
Plus: Aronofsky vs. "Robocop," gals conquer Comic-Con, and Arab cinema's greatest voice ... The whole question of how Aronofsky went from the guy who made "Pi" ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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Director Darren Aronofsky talks about why his junkie movie, "Requiem for a Dream," really isn't a junkie movie and about writing the script for the next "Batman."
And right at that point, Aronofsky makes it even harder to bear. ... Aronofsky and I met recently in a hotel room on Central Park West in New York. ...
By Jeff Stark
Friday, October 13, 2000
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Tim Cavanaugh reviews Pithemovie.com, a movie Web site that puts Hollywood to shame
Friday, Jul 31, 1998 05:55 EDT. Hollywood Squared. Tim Cavanaugh reviews Pithemovie.com, a ... "Pi," the much-discussed feature by Darren Aronofsky, is a case study in how to ...
By Tim Cavanaugh
Friday, July 31, 1998
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Inside the N.Y.-based indie awards, where we nominated "Ballast," "The Visitor," "Synecdoche," "The Wrestler" and a bunch of films nobody has ever seen.
Sichuan buttons: The flowers that electrocute your mouth. On the claimed "war exception" ... "Synecdoche, New York" and Darren Aronofsky's Mickey Rourke resurrection vehicle "The ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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Mickey Rourke gives a knockout performance as a nearly washed-up wrestling star.
In 2006, Aronofsky seemed to have lost it all with his New Age fever dream "The Fountain, ... Director Darren Aronofsky talks about why his junkie movie, "Requiem for a Dream, ...
By Stephanie Zacharek
Friday, October 10, 2008
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"Rushmore" meets "American Beauty" meets "Back to the Future" in this spectral, funny, amazing first film from writer-director Richard Kelly.
Somewhat in the manner of Darren Aronofsky (in "Pi" and "Requiem for a Dream") or Wes Anderson ("Rushmore"), Kelly takes these elements of pop ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
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An interview with "This Film Is Not Yet Rated" director Kirby Dick. Plus: The "real" Warhol and the Clint Eastwood of Japan.
Thursday, Aug 31, 2006 05:30 EDT. Beyond the Multiplex. An interview ... Almodóvar to Mary Harron to Darren Aronofsky, from "Midnight Cowboy" to "Scarface" to " ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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With warring sets of year-end indie awards on top of each other, who can keep track? We can! Here's who's in, out, hot and not at this very moment.
This Week in Crazy: Clarence Thomas. Obama confidant's spine-chilling ... indie-girl mini-odyssey "Wendy and Lucy" and Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler. ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Thursday, December 4, 2008
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What do Oscar nominees Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke have in common? The success stories of the year -- and the weathered mugs to show for it.
Aronofsky had always wanted Rourke for "The Wrestler" -- on the condition that Rourke needed to behave himself and refrain from any of the shenanigans ...
By Stephanie Zacharek
Friday, February 20, 2009
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Howard Stern and Tiki Barber take in Adam Carolla's "The Hammer." Plus: A dark indie from an "Entourage" actor and a compelling doc about U.S. soldiers.
Dwayne Johnson: He still rocks my world. Welcome, Tell us what you ... Tarantino and at least a little of the nightmarish vision of Darren Aronofsky. ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Friday, April 27, 2007
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Think it's hard getting into Sundance? Try getting into Lapdance. A report from the Indiewood trenches.
Justice Alito's conduct and the Court's credibility. Presidential ... Canadian citizen) vs. Darren "Pi" Aronofsky (Strength: creativity galore. ...
By Daniel Kraus
Thursday, February 3, 2000
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While the studios distracted us with big-budget behemoths, a renaissance in art film unfolded before our eyes.
On the claimed "war exception" to the Constitution "Voodoo Histories": When smart people ... wave indie directors as Darren Aronofsky ("Pi," "Requiem for a Dream") and ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Friday, November 16, 2001
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Darren Aronofsky doesn't make movies about drugs. They are drugs.
This time around, Aronofsky has the budget for some first-rate actors, nightmarish ... Director Darren Aronofsky talks about why his junkie movie, "Requiem ...
By Andrew O'Hehir
Friday, October 20, 2000
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"Panic" William H. Macy's hit man commands a serious black comedy, a quiet ... "Pi" Fuzzy logic: Laura Miller reviews 'Pi' directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Sean Gullette " ...
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From Fox's "24" to Destiny's Child videos to Hollywood, the splintered aesthetic of multichannel storytelling -- once the province of the '60s avant-garde -- is suddenly everywhere.
"Voodoo Histories": When smart people believe dumb things. On the claimed "war exception" ... and "The Princess Diaries." Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem for a Dream" opens with ...
By Julie Talen
Tuesday, May 14, 2002
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I realize there is a buck to be made, but couldn't Oliver Stone wait until after the election to release his ... Plus: Aronofsky vs. "Robocop," gals conquer Comic-Con, and Arab ...
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There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men?
The autism-vaccine lie that won't die. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... frustrating to wonder why Darren Aronofsky [director of 'Pi' and 'Requiem for ...
By Michelle Goldberg
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
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Oliver Stone's "W." has people excited -- no, really! Plus: Aronofsky vs. "Robocop," gals conquer Comic-Con, and Arab cinema's greatest voice falls silent. ...
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The director of "Quills," the new film about the Marquis de Sade, discusses sex, writers, repression and his movie's parallels to the Starr-Clinton fiasco.
Monday, Nov 27, 2000 12:22 EST. Philip Kaufman. The director of "Quills," the new film ... Requiem for a Dream" by Darren Aronofsky, that doesn't seem any more objectionable and ...
By Stephen Lemons
Monday, November 27, 2000
